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Driving into work today, I had a thought about how many songs out there have been played out.  Still, for some odd reason radio stations play them repeatedly and people at weddings get up and dance when they come on.  Granted a few of my selections may be great songs (some of which I liked at one time) by great bands but seriously, when is enough enough?  Keep in mind this all personal opinion and I have many more I'd like to list but I won't.  I'd like to hear other's choices. 

AC/DC-You Shook Me All Night Long
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer
Kool And The Gang - Celebration
Sister Sledge - We Are Family

As much as I love Nirvana "Smells like teen spirit" is on regular every two hours on regular radio. Thank god for satellite radio.

American Pie should never, ever be played again.  Period. 

Same goes for Hotel California.

NO MORE PINK FLOYD!

Black Sabbath - Iron Man

Anything by the Beatles!  The band that nearly destroyed rock n roll.

Stairway to Heaven
 
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I gave you a karma on that one! Though I like some of their songs,I would have liked to see where US rock and Roll would have developed without all the Beatles influnce mucked up the works and diverted attention to bands that could have used the expoure. The VENTURES should have been bigger than the Beatles!

I'm sending Karma your way for the Eagles choice.  I think all their library should be put away.  Funny thing about them, I like their solo work (Don Henley, Joe Walsh, Glen Frye, etc) 100% more than their collaborative effort.

Freebird.

That damned flailing endless guitar solo.   Please, never again.

Although I have his song, Sisqo's Thong Song.  That's one of those songs that you want to hear once in a blue moon.

Our House, ever since that Maxwell House commercial let people "sing" the chorus, I don't want to hear it again

Even though it's not a classic, John Mellencamp's Our Country.  Non-NASCAR fans need not apply

I'll stick to classic rock radio for now:

The entire span of Eric Clapton's solo career. Also "Layla" any and all versions.

"Kashmir"
"Stairway to Heaven"
"Rock 'N' Roll"
"Black Dog"

Any Skynyrd song except "Workin' for MCA" and "Double Trouble"

Bob Freakin' Seger and Eddie Freakin' Money

"Love the One You're With" - Stephen Stills

"Never Been Any Reason" - Head East

Anything by the damn Pretenders, especially "Brass in Pocket"

"With a Little Help from My Friends" - Joe Cocker

"Twilight Zone" and "Radar Love" - Golden Earring

The usual batch of Mellencamp songs, all his songs I like never get to be the radio fodder.

"Tom Sawyer", "Limelight", "Spirit of the Radio", and " Closer to the Heart" - Rush. They have other songs worth hearing.

You know what, if I hear his whining in Turn The Page one more time I'm going to rip the radio out of my truck.  I'm with you on most of your choices.

Since no one has thrown this band out, let me add a few KISS classics to the mix;
Rock N Roll All Night (its just....just has to go)
Shout It Out Loud

"Gloria" ~ LAURA BRANNIGAN 
"I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" ~ THE FOUR TOPS
"Michelle" ~ THE BEATLES

SONT LES MOTS QUI VONT TRES BIEN ENSEMBLE!

TRES BIEN ENSEMBLE!

Modern English's "I'd stop the world and melt with you"....That friggin song comes back into vogue like a bad rash every 4 or 5 years and, defying logic, manages to get even more irritating each time.




Ya know...I never hear "Mystic Rhythms" anywhere.  :bluesad:

I don't listen to them as much as I used to, but I'd settle for "Distant Early Warning", "Xanadu", or even "New World Man" which used to get airplay years ago.

And where the hell do radio stations play "Michelle" much less overplay it? I like the song and rarely hear it on the radio. Then again I've known a few Michelles in my time I was fond of.

I could live with Kiss getting radioplay if they played some of their few songs I like: "COld Gin", Strutter", or "Loud" (I think that's the name).

Same goes for Aerosmith, I like about four songs by them, only one from the post-Run DMC comeback. Everything else from that era of their career can vanish from the airwaves for all time and make me happy. Especially "Ragdoll", "Dude Looks Like a Lady" and "Don't Want to Miss a Thing."

I disagree about the Led Zepplin choices, but I would argue we should preemptively stop The Black Eyed Peas from releasing any more singles, collectively and individually (Fergie). I'd also put an end to Creedence Clearwater Revival,  Def Leppard, Van Halen and all of Rush's stuff.

Please, no more My Humps.  NO MORE!!! Brain... hurting... Must use...hammer...to... make it...stop.

Anything by Led Zepplin.  And this is not classic, but the whole Everclear playlist.  Egad, we get it...your childhood sucked, now get on with life and stops singing about it.
-Ed

Hmmmm no one mentioned Tom Petty yet eh?  Well let me add these...
American Girl
Refuge

Everclear...I curse the people responsible for bringing that band into the mainstream. 

Eh, I wouldn't exactly call My Humps classic.

Despite being a Queen fanatic, I'm rather sick of Bohemian Rhapsody. Really, Queen has so many songs to choose from! Why just play three or four of them? I've never heard Tie Your Mother Down on the radio at all, which sucks because it's such a cool song.

Having never seen your humps, I can't say whether they're classic or not either *rimshot*

heh heh  :tongueout:

I, too, am a huge Queen fan. I can agree with you that "Bohemian Rhapsody" is over played, I would rather say bye bye to "Killer Queen." It is true that Queen has a catalog of other songs that aren't "Rhapsody," "We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions," "Under Pressure," or "Killer Queen." However, out of the lot, I think "KQ" is the weakest. I've actually heard "Tie Your Mother Down" on the radio. What I haven't heard is "Radio Ga Ga," which I think is a little ironic.

www.almostqueen.com (http://www.almostqueen.com)
I saw these guys in January of '06. I'm not usually a fan of cover bands, but these guys were amazing! The singer sounded just like Freddie, and they played A LOT of stuff (including a ton of early album tracks along with a couple B-sides). If you ever get a chance to see them, do it. A friend of mine went to see Queen + Paul Rodgers in Jersey and said Almost Queen was 10x better. 

My #1 choice for kill it ...

Meatloaf - Paradise by the Dashboard Light :hatred:

The classic rock station here plays that putrid song about 8 times a day ... I can never find the mute button fast enough. God I hate that song ... what it is about a hour long?

Heart - Magic Man .... once a years is enough thanks.
Elton John and Keke Dee - Don't go breakin' my Heart ... First, WTF is doing on a classic rock station. Second, never play it again.

And about any of those 80's big hair ballad songs.

I'm sitting at work today listening to an internet 80s channel and the ultimate "has to go" song comes on...I thought I read somewhere that the artist even hates it...

Don't Worry Be Happy  :thumbdown:  :thumbdown:  :thumbdown:  :thumbdown:  :thumbdown:  :hatred:

It would seem the song is not working ...

Indeed, its a bit of a reverse effect that song puts me in.  I get worried and unhappy. 

KARMA POINTS!

The Madness has a lot of way better songs than "Our House".  "One Step Beyond" is probably my favorite ska song of all time.  "House of Fun" is another solid 80's ska/punk song.  I never understood the appeal of "Our House" since it really doesn't sound like most of their other stuff.

Kind of like "Drive" by The Cars.

I agree! If I hear Another Brick in the Wall one more time I 'm driving by the radio station and heaving a brick at them.

"Tie Your Mother Down" still gets played here for some reason. I could do with more stuff from them besides the old standbys, but I'd say that of most of the classic rock genre. I don't want anything by Steve Miller from the 74-78 era, but the 68-73 stuff, Hell yeah.

I like some of Everclear, before the whiney sucky childhood stuff took over. "You Make Me Feel Like a Whore", "One Hit Wonder", "Sparkle and Fade", and "El Distorto del Melodica" I still listen to. "AM Radio" and their cover of "Brown Eyed Girl" were the point of no return for me.

I could do without ever hearing the real "Brown Eyed Girl" either. I love Van Morrison's music, but that song is overplayed and covered by every local band wher I live. I even had a friend in a grunge/emo cover band who had to learn it since they got so many requests. Plus one summer while working in my college's PR department for class credit, the girl who worked there pretty much full time would call and request it from the same radio station at the same time every day, and they played it every time. It was "their song" with her girlfriend. Already hated the song before that, but knowing I would hear it every day at the same time made it worse.

another one for you all from the 80s...

Lean On Me - Club Noveau

Oh thanks .. now I'll have that disco-ish 80's crap in my head all day.

Whatever you do, don't think about UB40's "Red Red Wine."

Especially the pseudo-rap part at the end.

Agreed.  While I am a Queen fan, however we will rock you needs to retire as well.  I hate that song with a passion.   

The line broke...the monkey get choked...

Well, Yaddo, the thread was Classic Songs That Need Retirement, not Classic Songs That Are Overplayed On The Radio.  However, I do hear "Michelle" on the oldies stations sometimes, but certainly not as much as years ago (same is true for "Gloria").  I have sure been hearing "Michelle" for decades, and if a song needs retiring it's only because I've heard it too many times.  One of my favorite BEATLES albums is Rubber Soul...bet you can guess the one track I skip. 

Over played Classic Song could cause auto wrecks .... (my off the cuff made up) study finds.

We have a number of classic rock radio stations around here, and I love classic rock by I swear these stations I believe have the same damn play list of 10 songs. It's like watching TV and you change the channel to land on the same commercial in a different part of it and you wonder for a second if you really changed the channel.
Same for these station and their songs, you'll be listing to some overplayed 1970's song just to change the station and land on the same song in a different part of it and for a second you're in deja vu land and think did I actually change the station? So you look down to see if you actually changed it, which causes one to take their eyes of the road if you are driving just long enough that is could lead to an accident and death.

Conclusion: Retiring over played songs saves lives!

Well, I've always liked Meat Loaf's original Bat Out of Hell album, but even I have to agree they play "Paradise..." way, way too much all over the place.

But still, it's the lesser of two evils. I prefer a to hear a lot of these classic rock songs over again than to have to sit through all the manufactured, modern junk they crank out now.  We're basically in a new version of the Disco era, where every pop/hip hop song sounds exactly the same.  You could even string some of these songs together and turn it into a single tune with the exact same rhythm.  EX: you could put together those "London Bridge" and "Chicken Noodle Soup" songs together flawlessly.   

But back on topic...I want to send a message to one of my local rock stations...I want you to find who keeps wanting to play Queen's "Killer Queen" at least 5 times in the same day, and shoot him!  For the love of god!

Radio stations are the reason Jesus came back from the dead to invent tapes, CDs, MP3 players and satellite radio: so people don't need to be tortured by radio stations that can only afford 10 or 12 song playlists. It also helps avoid the same 6 commercials being played every 2 or 3 songs. Given the affordable technology available, why bother listening to the radio at all anymore? So your favorite songs can be censored? Because you don't get enough commercial exposure watching TV? For hours of mindless deejay prattle? If you prefer the randomness of the radio, just make your own mix CDs or get an MP3 player and put 'em on shuffle.  :wink:

Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana.  Granted, good band, but damn, I don't need to hear Kurt crying every hour and a half.

Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2.  Good song, but I'm tired of hearing it.  I may get rocks thrown at my head, but it's my opinion.

Kashmir by Led Zeppelin.  I like some songs by Zeppelin, but everytime I hear this I just, eh. 

But also, I'd say pretty much most of all music put out today is pretty freaking terrible.  It's not just the pop/rap stuff either.  Even the rock groups too.

Ay Bay Bay by Hurricane Chris.  I wouldn't even think of classifying it as classic, but I'm pretty sick of it.

Mustang Sally.

I would die a happy man if I never heard another god-awful karaoke version of this song.

That song is one of the reasons I quit going to local clubs for a while ("Brown Eyed Girl" overkill was another). I couldn't stand to hear one more group of (usually) white guys who thought playing this song made them a soul band. Even worse, Wilson Pickett recorded here back when the Muscle Shoals area was a major music recording center. So telling people you were tired of the song would get you treated like a pariah.

Used to point out that just because a certain song or artist had a connection to the area didn't make it any better in my opinion, although it made some bad songs worse IMO. The Osmonds and apparently Air Supply recorded here also, but they still suck.

One of my favorite artists, the late Chris Whitley recorded an album here in the mid 90s, but it's one of his weakest albums, I don't like it any better because he came here to make it. One of my favorite songs on his next album was also recored here, but I didn't know it until I read the liner notes after several listens and making up my mind about the songs already.

Back when I had my 2nd car back in the early to mid 90's (a 1983 Chevy Celebrity that I paid 500 bucks for and got 5 years out of it without it breaking down on me once) I didn't have a CD player in it so I was forced to listen to the radio.

Around 1995 or so we had a 2nd classic rock radio station crop up and while going down the road one day listening to them playing "Green Grass and High Tides". I switched over to the other station and they were playing the exact same song but it was about 5 or 6 seconds behind. So I kept switching back and forth between the 2 stations to annoy my friends riding with me and it was just really, really surreal.  I had the exact same feeling that you mentioned at that point.    :drink: :drink:

I once heard Journey's "Wheel In The Sky" on three different stations at the same time, barely seconds apart in playing time. A classic rock station, an Adult Contemporary/Listen at Work/Pop Oldies station, and a Top 40 station that played older hits on the weekends and at lunch.

Unrelated to this on the topic, I might listen to the syndicated radio show Flashback more if they didn't find an excuse to play "Radar Love" by Golden Earring, every time I try to listen to it.

Hell, the reason I quit listening to the show for a while years ago was that they played "Black Magic Woman" every week. The one week it wasn't the Santana version was the original Fleetwood Mac version.

It's still on TV, but back in the days, I used to watch Showtime at the Apollo.  One of their segments was Amature Night where, be it singing, dance, comedy, etc., if a wanna be was good, the audience would let them know (and they wll, trust me).  This song, whenever a singer (female) would sing it, seem to get tired and tired every time I hear it.  This song also happens to be in the theatrical play and movie, Dreamgirls.  That song is You're Gonna Love Me (Sorry, Jennifer.  It's not you, it's the song.)

Sadly, I have to agree.  Before you flame me though, hear me out.
In 198whatever, I was living in the Houston area.  This is when Floyd came out with Momentary Lapse of Reason.
KLOL the cool station after 97 rock changed format played EVERY friggin Floyd song for like a week straight.
I got so bloody burned out that even today, I have to change the station when Pink Floyd comes on the radio.  It's kind of like a conditioned response.

To this list, I have to add most Led Zepplin, a lot of Hendrix and Boston's entire catalog.

I'm sorry guys, but can we say "Played the f*** out"?

Although this one isn't a classic song per se, I would like to banish radio stations who play Nickleback's "Rock Star". 

How about the Rolling Stones. Sheesh. If I have to hear "Beast of Burden" one more time.....

And I know this is mainly a Rock thread, but...

Anything by Hank Williams Jr. I live in a rural southern area, and if I hear one more kid with his jacked-up pickup, cell phone attached to his ear, and Ambercrombie clothes on blast out "Countryboy Can Survive" like its his own personal song I may have to take a trip to the nice little place with the white padded walls and the jackets where you can hug yourself all day. I would just love to see these little wannabes try to do half the crap he talks about in that song. Take the cell phones away and they wouldn't know what to do, much less survive in the country.

KISS - Rock N Roll All Night
Whoever did Always and Forever

It was Heatwave that did Always and Forever and I like that song.

For 13 weeks, in the spring and summer of 1989 I heard that song all day, every day.
It was one of the two hot songs that year and everyone was singing it through my entire basic training cycle.
Patience, by Guns N Roses was the other and I hate that one almost as bad.

I like a lot of the songs that have been listed here, but I've had it up to my eyeballs with them.
Thus, my sentiment to retire them.

Anything by  Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band.

If I never hear ...

Turn the Page
Katmandu    
Beautiful Loser
Nutbush City Limits
Night Moves
Mainstreet

and about a 100 more it'll be to soon.

Karma for you...especially Turn The Page.  I hate songs where rock singers whine about how life sucks on the road.  Although I'm not sure if I'm ready to add Bon Jovi's Dead Or Alive to this list yet.  I still like that song a bit. 

On a side note, the following songs just came to mind;
Quiet Riot - Cum On Feel The Noize
Poison - Nothin' But  A Good Time and many others
VM - Brown Eyed Girl

From one military grunt to another, I can sympathize with you.  All I heard in basic training is country music (I was in Ft. McClellan, Alabama).  And I love hip-hop, but this one dude was blasting Master P a LOT. That and Tupac (it was in '96)

I'd like to add anything by the Doors to this list.  Both the original version and the Ian Astbury version

I'm with you for about 95% of the catalog.  There are a few songs I like but stuff like Light My Fire, Touch Me (was this song ever good), etc can go.  I'm a big fan of The Cult so I never liked Ian with The Doors. 

Another classic band I'm not sure that has been brought up yet, The Who.  Theres a few things of theirs I'd like to see banished.  Probably the whole soundtrack to Tommy. 

I'll grant you The Who.  For the most part.
Can I add anything by post "Justice" Metallica?

I have no objections.  However I recommend we start with the worst of the worst, the song "I Disappear" which ironically has a wishful meaning to me since I'd love to see the song disappear forever.  Then perhaps we can elminate the video images of MTV's Metallica Icon from our heads too.  Avril Lavigne, Limp Bizkit, wtf???

Any song by Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin, Aerosmith, AC/DC or Journey.

Hotel California - The Eagles
American Pie - Don McLean
Stairway To Heaven - Led Zepplin
And that song by Jimi Hendrix that says "excuse me while I kiss the sky"

I hate all of those songs and they should be retired (in the terminal sense), never to see the light of day any more.

As has been said before, I try not to listen to radio stations too much. On the few occasions I actually do, I usually prefer the classics over the mainstream stuff that's on most stations. But admittedly, most of the songs mentioned so far wear off pretty soon (some of them after about 25 seconds). On the other hand, the station I prefer because they play rather independent songs wears also off after a couple of days, because severe repeating of the playlist.

That said, there is one song I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR AGAIN....EVER!!!! Usually we are not pestered with it most of the year, but in the recent special season one just can't escape. This year, however, was the first time I was not only tortured by the original, but by several cover versions, on one occasion three different ones in one day. I am talking, of course, about:

Last Christmas by Wham...hhrrxxmpflnnnnghhh!

I don't actually listen to the radio and haven't for a long long time.

My clock radio wakes me up in the morning, but that's tuned to the ABC Classical station, so I wake up to Chopin or something equally delightful and then the hourly news.  Hey, it's better than having Britney assault your ears at 7 am!

Journey - Wheel in the Sky

My parents play this over and over.

Don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but I have to say it.. Welcome to the Jungle. I know, it's an amazing song, but I've heard it probably something like 7000 times, so start playing more Mr. Brownstone radio.